impalement
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- noun
- /ɪmˈpeɪlmənt/
- Offensive
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empalamiento
- And for this I must beg the indulgence of my former assistant... ...in matters of impalement.
Examples
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Did you know that impalement is actually like, like the death process is from your own body weight?
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This crime family of yours, would it enjoy witnessing the beheading of its enemies and the impalement of all who oppose it?
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Execution was usually by impalement on a wooden stake.
Academic text (2006) -
The impalement that he had from the suspension created some issues with bleeding.
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They commit all manner of atrocities, such as impalement.
Blog text (18) -
Gently, Father Herrick rescued the document from Olivia's impalement.
Fiction book (1994) -
He probably felt guilty for his L.A. junket and my subsequent impalement on the corkscrew of fate.
Fiction book (1991) -
During their conquests, they used siege tactics and cruel punishments for those who opposed them, including impalement and flaying.
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From impalement, disembowelment, dismemberment, decapitation, electrocution, suffocation, and over here the ever popular blunt force trauma.
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In ancient times, impalement was often used to punish criminals and enemies.
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Etymology
Impalement comes from Latin parts in- 'in' and palus 'stake', the same idea behind a fence made of wooden stakes. So, to be impaled is to be pierced 'into' by a sharp stake, which is why the word means piercing a body as a form of punishment.